Sunday, 28 July 2013

KRIS HOLMES
Top 5: Soul 45s At The Minute
1. Barbara Lynn - I Don't Want a Playboy
2. Billy Butler - The Right Track
3. Johnny Jones - Purple Haze
4. The Vanguards - The Thought Of Losing Your Love
5. Lee Moses - Reach Out I'll Be There
Probably the deepest soul and funk 45 collector in New Zealand, you can catch Kris every Sunday from 2-4pm playing killer soul and funk 45s on Radio Ponsonby. Take a look at his record nerd research website Greenville and Beyond, and grab some of his mixes. And he also releases his own funk 45s from time to time...
www.greenvilleandbeyond.wordpress.com
www.mixcloud.com/Kris_Holmes

JUKKA SARAPAA
Top 5: Songs For Sunday Listening
1. Romeo Taylor - When You Made Love
(...great lo-fi soul sounds with snapping drums, bit like Eunice Collins and Darondo put together on the same disc...)
2. Che Cruden - You Have Cheated Me
(...superby strange ballad with crying lead, opera style backup vocals and melodica horn melodies... very strange indeed...)
3. Black Eart - Wihtout Your Love
(...doomy soul ballad with echoed dragging drums and extremely weak vocal performance topped with some harmonies... somehow this still works...)
4. Gordon Henderson And Vikings - Pain Of Love
(...totally depressing ballad with a touch of falsetto on lead... story about a girl who's been hurt, brutalized and treated way worse than you could ever realise... amazing super wide stereo mix too...)
5. The Rajah - Down On My Knees
(...great vibrating deep soul with begging lead vocals... this dude has really been hurt and wants his lady back again...)
Jukka Sarapaa is the drummer for Finnish soul heavyweights The Soul Investigators. He is also one of the top dogs at Timmion Records, and if you want to get your own music pressed by them Jukka is the man to get in touch with. Check out their new album with Nicole Willis, 'Tortured Soul', and go buy stuff from them.
www.timmion.com

Issue #2 of the 'zine will be available for FREE at the next NZ Soul All Dayer event - also FREE, from midday til midnight, Saturday 17 August, at the Britomart Country Club.

SCOTT 'DOUGHBOY' TOWERS
Top 5: Spots To Get Schooled On Awesome Music
1. Groove Merchant record store (in San Francisco, USA)
2. Ben Stevens' crates (aka DJ Longboss)
3. The Boil Up radio show (Base FM Thurs 8pm)
4. Dennis 'Citizen' Kane's podcast (http://www.dsgtnyc.com)
5. Kilburn Record Fair (in London, UK)
Scott DJs fairly regularly under the pseudonym Doughboy, and has done so at venues from here to Berlin, and many points in between. In his 'dayjob' he plays saxophone for Fat Freddy's Drop. And he makes a mean handmade sausage.

MARK DE CLIVE-LOWE
Top 5: Music Events
1. D'Angelo Voodoo Tour with support from Slum Village (Brixton Academy, London)
2. Herbie Hancock/V.S.O.P. (Yomiuri Land, Tokyo)
3. Bembe Segue (Jazz Cafe, London)
4. DJ Spinna 7 Hour DJ Set (Club Asia, Tokyo)
5. J Dilla DJ Set (Plastic People, London)
MdCL is one of NZ's most respected musical figures globally, hands down. Check his recent Take The Space Trane album (Tru Thoughts) alongside the Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra for big orchestral grooves and a modern take on the big band sound. And, if you get the chance, his ever-evolving CHURCH shows in LA, and NYC during the US summer.
www.markdeclivelowe.net
www.mashibeats.blogspot.com
www.tru-thoughts.co.uk

Issue #2 of the 'zine will be available for FREE, at the next NZ Soul All Dayer event - also FREE, from midday til midnight, Saturday 17 August, at the Britomart Country Club.

Thursday, 25 July 2013

GENE RIVERS
Top 5: Maori Musicians Of Unrecognised Genius Who Set The Foundation For Todays Aotearoa Soul Sound
1. Weasel Tairoa
2. Ricky May
3. Mark Kahi
4. Anzac Te Oka
5. Phillip Rivers
Aside from being one of life's true gentlemen, Gene is also the host of Chocolate Sundae, one of the longest running shows on George FM. And there's good reason for that, too. You can confirm why by listening (along with many, many others) to him every Sunday from 4-6pm.

VANESSA FREEMAN
Top 5: Current Favourites
1. Rene And Angela - Secret Rendezvous
2. Leroy Burgess - Mainline
3. Johnny Hammond - Tell Me What To Do
4. Nuyorican Soul - I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun
5. Gwen McCrae - 90% Of Me Is You
Vanessa Freeman has the voice of an angel. She has worked with everyone from Kyoto Jazz Massive, 4 Hero and Bugz In The Attic to Azymuth, Nathan Haines and Phil Asher. We love Vanessa and we're hoping to have her appear at a future NZ Soul All Dayer...

Issue #2 will be available for FREE at the next NZ Soul All Dayer event - also FREE, from midday til midnight, Saturday 17 August, at the Britomart Country Club.

SELECTA SAM
Top 5: Stone Cold Killa Wah Wah Jams (Excluding 'Shaft' and 'Son Of Shaft')
1. Apollis - What It Is
2. Carl "Sherlock" Holmes - Investigation
3. Rudy Love and Love Family - Does Your Mama Know
4. The Montgomery Express - Montgomery Movement
5. Roy Porter - Party Time
Long-time host of the The Dose, George FM's slice of everything that's good about Saturdays, Selecta Sam is a renowned vinyl fiend and a deep head of soulful, funky music - among many, many other kinds of music. Sam's also a bit of a guitar god, shredding the stage on a regular basis with his band Luger Boa. When you see him, throw him the goat from us, will ya?

LANCE FERGUSON (The Bamboos/Lanu/Menagerie)
Top 5: Antipodean Digging Spots
1. Northside Records, Melbourne
2. Slow Boat Records, Wellington
3. Butterbeats, Brisbane
4. Conch Records, Auckland
5. ReRun Records, Adelaide
Lance Ferguson is the bandleader and guitarist for The Bamboos, one of the most accomplished and respected deep funk outfits on the face of the planet. Thing is, there are so many strings to this man's bow that the opening line of this paragraph doesn't at all do him justice. Check out his own work as Lanu, or Menagerie, and his production work with Kylie Auldist; or his sideman gig in Cookin' With 3 Burners, or... you get the picture?
www.thebamboos.com
www.lanceferguson.com.au

Issue #2 of the 'zine will be available for FREE at the next NZ Soul All Dayer event - also FREE, from midday til midnight, Saturday 17 August, at the Britomart Country Club.

JAY JEFFREY
Top 5: Must Have LPs
1. Young Disciples - Road To Freedom
2. Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
3. James Mason - Rhythm Of Life
4. Maze featuring Frankie Beverly - Maze
5. Minnie Riperton - Adventures In Paradise
Jay has played with the likes of Chaka Khan, James Brown and Jamiroquai; spent a couple of lost summers DJing in Ibiza; ran the legendary UK clubnight 'Takin' Off'; and once owned a record store called Fat Albert's. Jay now calls Auckland his home and you can hear him on Radio Ponsonby every Saturday from 10am 'til midday, with Fat Albert's Rare Groove Show.